it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.